Gr8 Unit 8 LevelC Flashcards

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What is the word for clothes and apparel.
This is also the verb meaning to dress or to adorn.

Synonym: clothing

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attire

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What word is it to join at one and will be next to?

Synonym: border on, bolster

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abut

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This word means to be of use or benefit to or to make you so; to take advantage of; to profit or benefit.

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avail

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This word means a very close friend, pal, chump, buddy.

Antonyms: enemy, rival

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crony

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This word means puzzling, mystifying or enigmatic.

Antonyms: crystal clear, unambiguous

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cryptic

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This word means going in different directions; different from each other; departing from conversation, deviant.

Synonyms: not in agreement, differing, Unorthodox, unconventional

Antonyms: merging, intersecting, converging, Orthodox, conventional

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divergent

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This word means hatred or ill-will

Synonyms: hostility, animosity, antagonism

Antonyms: friendship, amity

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enmity

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This word means very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot.

Synonyms: enthusiastic, or didn’t, burning, blazing

Antonyms: sorry blasé, apathetic, restrained, emotionless

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fervent

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This word means the thin and bony, starved looking, bare, barren.

Synonyms: lean, scrawny, skin and bones

Antonyms: plump, chubby, stout, corpulent

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gaunt

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This word means to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily.

Synonyms: slip into, creep into, penetrate.

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infiltrate

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This word means capable of being grasped by the senses or mind.

Synonyms: noticeable, discernible, observable

Antonyms: invisible, unnoticeable, indiscernible.

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perceptible

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This word means to plunge straight down.
Noun means a weight fastened to a line.

Synonym: take a nosedive
Antonyms: soar, skyrocket

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plummet

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The word means to declare publicly officially.

Synonyms: announced, call me rugate

Antonyms: conceal, cover-up

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proclaim

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This word means an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another’s place.

Synonyms: deputy, representative

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proxy

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This word means to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness [with the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time]

Synonyms: irritate, vex, nettle, irk, gall

Antonyms: please, delight, gratify

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rankle

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This word means a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies.

Synonym: rummager

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scavenger

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This word means to limit, be sparing or frugal; the noun is a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity.

Synonyms: restrict, scrimp, economize

Antonyms: splurge, squander, lavish

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stint

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This word means self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain.

Synonyms: unresponsive, impassive
Antonyms: excitable, emotional, hotheaded

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stoical

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This word means tireless, continuing with vigor.

Synonyms: steady, undiminished, unremitting

Antonyms: diminishing, drooping, sagging

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unflagging